Robert Love writes:> On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 18:36, Richard Gooch wrote:> > > In other words, "yes, unless you happen not to use SysV IPC semaphores> > or message queues in any of your binaries on your system". So you want> > to break binary compatibility. Please don't. I don't want to downgrade> > to glibc.> > So are you saying we can never deprecate interfaces, just so you can> continue using libc5?

Having a stable ABI to user-space has been one of the strong points ofLinux, versus just about everything else out there. And I wouldn't beusing libc 5 if glibc wasn't growing exponentially with time (both interms of total bytes and in terms of number of shared libraries I haveto add to my link line).